Urbacodon

Urbacodon is a genus of troodontid theropod dinosaur. Two species have been described, both of which are known from a partial dentary: U. itemirensis from the Dzharakuduk Formation (Cenomanian) of Uzbekistan and U. norelli from the Iren Dabasu Formation of China. Possible remains are also known from the Bissekty Formation (Turonian) of Uzbekistan.

Urbacodon

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TroodontinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Troodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Troodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Troodontidae
Length
1 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya83.6 Mya127 Mya71 Mya

6 occurrences of Urbacodon on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

6 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Ilek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EIlek — 55.88°N, 88.32°EIlek — 56.62°N, 91.99°EDzharakuduk — 42.10°N, 62.58°EIren Dabasu — 43.81°N, 112.20°E

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The named rock units Urbacodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Urbacodon and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Urbacodon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Urbacodon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Urbacodon

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Urbacodon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTroodontinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Averianov and Sues 2007